mrtcat

For me the pinnacle isn't one single bass line. My personal pinnacle would be the time when I realise I can write and nail great bass lines and fills and solos on the fly which really complement a song. In terms of who I feel can do this currently then it's going to be Paul Turner, Joe Dart and a whole load of other groove players plus Pino Palladino. I totally understand that players like victor wooten are ridiculously talented but I can't really get into solo style stuff. In fact Nathan East doing his sir Duke thing a couple of years back made me sell my NE signature yamaha lol.

[quote name='Fisheth' timestamp='1476899124' post='3158308'] Limelights look absolutely delightful, what's the pricing on them? [/quote] Due to the poor exchange rate, the prices have just gone up a touch. Precisions are slightly less expensive than Jazzes as there's less parts but for a standard Precision you would be in the region of £850 and a standard Jazz around £900. Obviously these are custom items so if you opt for blocks and bindings etc it will push the price up. Your best bet is to drop mark a line and ask. He's really easy to deal with and is definitely not the kind of guy to push to make a sale. He'll just answer anything you want to know.

Thanks Karl, and thanks everyone for the kind words. Definitely feeling pretty lucky despite MrsTcat telling anyone who will listen that she's considering trading me for two 20yr olds.

[attachment=230191:Limelight P.jpg] That's the only one I have that's uploadable right now.

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' timestamp='1476712609' post='3156523'] Ahh I can't see the picture [/quote] My bad, try that.

After what seemed like an endless wait I can finally introduce my new bass!!! Today is my 40th birthday (seems I share a bday with Pino Palladino which can't be a bad thing) and when I came downstairs this morning this was waiting for me in the living room. My wife and family wanted to get me something special and I've always fancied a workhorse Precision. As I was born in 1976 then a '76 P would be the dream bass. That said I wasn't going to push my luck and ask for £2k's worth of something special and to be fair I probably wouldn't take a proper vintage bass out of the house. Therefore we decided a nice Limelight replica would be a great option. I contacted Mark at Limelight way back in April to get the ball rolling. He was absolutely a pleasure to deal with at all stages and he agreed to hold on to the bass until early October because we were visiting Devon then and I really wanted to be able to pick it up in person. Mark was really welcoming when I arrived at his HQ to collect and we had a really good chat about basses, playing and bands. I was really glad to get a chance to meet the chap who built a guitar that I will own for the rest of my life (there's no way I could ever sell a bass that my family had all chipped in to buy me for a milestone birthday). The bass was swiftly confiscated from me by my wife (ok I admit I sneaked it out of the cupboard when she wasn't looking) and I wasn't allowed to have it until today. So here it is. A Limelight 1976 P replica in Olympic white with a light relic. It plays beautifully, sounds huge and I'm a very happy fella today. [url="http://s12.photobucket.com/user/Tom_Caswell/library/Limelight%20Precision"]http://s12.photobuck...ght%20Precision[/url]

Mark made my Limelight 76 precision. I picked it up from his house in Devon a couple of weeks ago. He was an absolute gent and clearly passionate about basses. I couldn't be happier with my new bass and will definitely be ordering a nice 60s Limelight jazz next. He's very easy to deal with and knows his stuff.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1475712613' post='3148226'] cool! I like your red cabs too, what are they? [/quote] Haha yes they must look kinda familiar to you ;-)

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1475921229' post='3149743'] That's not an answer. You can always hear the PA, even from behind it. When you're using IEM's you're shut off from all of the FOH so how do you maintain a balance out front through out the gig? I'm asking the question because maybe the guys using IEM's have solved what to me seems like a show stopper, unless you have a sound man. I've not been in many bands that were able to maintain a balance using backline, but you can hear when the band and volume is going out of balance, but how do you address this with no backline and when you're cut off from the PA using IEM's. [/quote] I wouldn't adjust the pa from the stage whether I use iems or not. If you have a monitor wedge in front of you then you're not hearing what the audience hears so any adjustment to pa is going to be mostly guess work. We do a decent sound check before the gig and don't adjust it. On gigs where I use iems the process is exactly the same. I don't put my in ears in until after soundcheck. If at any point there was a problem with the foh sound I'd have to go out front to fix it regardless of whether using iems or not and if using them I'd just pop them out to hear what's going on out front.

Upbeat and popular is a must for 1St song for me. Even better would be a lively medley.

[quote name='xzodar' timestamp='1473591185' post='3131386'] PJB Bighead with PJB headphones and music via an iPad app is working for me. (Also works with an iPhone) I'm using an app called Anytune which allows you to vary tempo and pitch as well as set loops within the song to practice with etc as well as a step change function for practicing tricky passages and then speeding up slightly in increments which you can set. I'm using a tablet stand from Ikea which keeps it all nice and compact. [/quote] Trying to understand why you have my set list on your ipad lol

Recording of a dep that the singer from my band and I did on Saturday. Easy to learn the set because they use backing tracks so they sent us the tracks and we were both able to run through a few bits on our own before the gig. Went well despite the drummers best attempts at making us laugh to put us off. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CutYNHBTaA8[/media]

I'll do a review tomorrow when I sober up a touch but have to say they were brilliant. All of the band are extremely talented guys who move seamlessly from one instrument to another. Joe Dart is a brilliant player but he plays entirely for the song and grooves so well. It was awesome to see the whole place bouncing and singing along to their stuff and even the band seemed genuinely surprised at just how popular they are. I get the feeling that Joe Dart may well become a first choice session player for really big names soon.

Sorry :-(. Lol

As it says. Anyone else here at brooklyn bowl? Lovely small venue for a cool band.

Yamaha BBG5's are a far better instrument than their price tag would suggest. You may well have to take a bit of a financial leap to get anything that is really significantly better. That said I really do like the Maruszczyk and you get a lot of bass for your money.

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1473935672' post='3134266'] I own the PA... I charge the band for hire [/quote] Likewise and I charge for loading and unloading time at home too. There is however no right / wrong answer to the OP's post only whatever arrangement works for a particular band. To appoint a new band member on what they own rather than what they can add musically is nuts though and the OP's prospective band would be better off finding a bass player first and then sitting down and arranging how they are going to sort a PA.

Great fun wedding in Oxfordshire. Little audio medley recorded from the night below. For those who look down upon covers bands, don't even bother listening lol - stereotypical covers band content - 1st two songs alone will make you sick!! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqryETRxcg[/media]

Played a wedding at Bicester Garrison officers mess last night. The groom and his father were both in the forces and we were booked on recommendation. We have also played in Cyprus for the RAF Christmas bash twice after the chap in charge of ents saw us at a wedding. As has been mentioned before, the person who books ents changes often and therefore it's usually a one off if you get booked. We were told that they prefer non rock bands mostly as squaddies get feisty quite easily so party bands with good humour are often picked.

This thread has (to me) some of the coolest basses I've seen on this forum. Clarky72 that looks killer. I love Mark's work and that looks like is should be awesome.

Played with a stingray at a wedding last night and it reminded me of what an idiot I was to sell my old one. Sounded great with all the authority and punch you could ever wish for. Drummer was loving the growly funky Stingrayness of it. Yes you need one.

Aguilar Db750 and 2 x TKS 1126. Job done.

The super compact has a usable frequency range up to 4khz. I'd be surprised if you couldn't dial in the top end you are looking for with a decent eq.

I opted for the behringer x-air over the Mackie because Mackie has a history of not offering driver updates on its products. As operating systems move on the Mackie gear can become defunkt. I owned an onyx 1640i which I had to ditch when I brought a new PC and they didn't offer a driver update to make it compatible with Windows 8. When I asked them for help their only advice was to fork out £1100 on a new version of the same mixer.